Wisconsin's Obamacare tally: 877

The Obama administration released figures Wednesday on participation so far in the health insurance marketplaces set up through the Affordable Care Act.

In Wisconsin, 877 people had picked a health plan sold on the federal marketplace as of Nov. 2, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, 19,098 electronic and paper applications to cover 34,678 people had been completed, with 8,911 people determined to be eligible for subsidized coverage.

As of Monday, almost six weeks after the healthcare.gov website was launched, Progressive Community Health Centers in Milwaukee had enrolled five people in health plans, said Sarah Bailey, a spokeswoman for the health center. »Read Full Blog Post

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From the report: “Individuals Who Have Selected a Marketplace plan” represents the total number of “Individuals Determined Eligible to Enroll in a plan Through the Marketplace” who have selected a plan (with or without the first premium payment having been received directly by the Marketplace or the issuer) during the reference period. This is also known as pre-effectuated enrollment.

Seriously?? Have you not been listening to the Republicans and Tea Partiers?? We've been saying this for a LOOONNNNNGGGG time, but the tree-hugging liberals plugged their ears, closed their eyes, and screamed LALALALALALA!!!!

Way to go JeeryB, you show you idocy with your response about Braun. Keep on the subject or go to bed with your bottle, because that is the way you come across. Like a troublemaker in your mama's basement with all the refrig's filled with beer and all the goodies at hand so you don't have to make an effort to earn your keep. I would side with you like I would with a1'st grader who can't read and just depends on Mama to feed him.

OK - so 8,911 out of 34,678 Wisconsinites so far - that's about 1 in 4 - have qualified for subsidies, so 3 out of 4 have not. That's a surprisingly large percentage given how large income levels can be and still qualify for subsidies (e.g. up to $94,200 for family of four). It suggests there may be a large number of middle class families in Wisconsin who, for one reason or another, wind up having to get their health insurance on the federal exchange.

Let's hope the Journal Sentinel can find a way to tell us about the experiences of those 3 out of 4. How many of them are getting health insurance for the first time? Of the ones who have had health insurance but, for whatever reason (cancellation, job change, loss of job, etc.) have had to replace it with an Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy, how do the premiums, deductibles, and co-pays in the ACA policies they are buying compare to the premiums, deductibles, and co-pays in the policies they had before?

The answer will be some are doing better, some are about the same, and some are doing worse. It would be useful to know the percentages of that breakout - because that would be an indicator of the degree of income re-distribution that the Affordable Care Act will cause to happen in Wisconsin.

Got 6tha6t right Grumps, lets compare all of the options. No one is doing that. I can navigate the intrnet, but believe me I know many who do not have or if they do not know how to use or just say too bad I don't want to use it. What and how do these people learn about the options. For sure they do not even take the js paper. This has turned out to be such a horrible option for so many people, most of us should be sick to our stomachs.

Also I wish the JS would be working so my typing would be as good as it should be and not so slow that looks like I am an idiot. Always side with the ones who are picked on for spelling etc. NOT their fault.

The point of 0bama care was to insure people who did not have the means or the resources to obtain health care insurance. Allegedly, as a way to make it easier to obtain this mandated coverage was to supply a website wherein folks could login, disclose a lot of PHI and PII, and enroll. This requires a computer by whatever means necessary and the skills to know how to access the internet and fill out the myriad questions.

The same folks on the left are telling us that asking for a voter to present a picture ID, which the taxpayers have been volunteered to pay for, is "discriminatory" because it hits hardest those people who do not have the means or the resources to obtain one.

Wow the city of MKE progressive clinic got a whopping 5 people? We just had the mke county board spend over 1.2 million dollars getting people to sign up...so that = around 300k per person for just getting 5 people to sign up...at 20 dollars a pop would cover thousands of people in the city of mke.....meanwhile how many people have lost plans in the city of mke due to dumbocare?